Italy's new Prime Minister Mario Monti said Tuesday that he would put Europe at the heart of his government activity and all commitments made by the previous administration would be respected.

VietNamNet Bridge – From Jakarta, Indonesia, apology from the Vietnam Football Federation’s (VFF) Chair Nguyen Trong Hy, coach Falko Goetz and U23 team have been sent to Vietnamese fans.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nguyen Thi Phuong, 26, who suddenly turned wrinkled like an 80-year-old woman, now looks younger after a month and a half of treatment at the HCM City Medical University Hospital.

PM Hun Sen: VN helps Cambodia escape from genocide; US Oregon National Guard delegation visits Vietnam; Party leader calls for strengthening Party personnel organization

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam One Health University Network has established linking universities throughout the country to increase regional co-ordination in the response to animal diseases that can affect human health.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 12,000 Vietnamese were dead and 9,300 others injured in traffic accidents, equivalent to 75 and 150 percent of the dead and wounded victims in Japan’s earthquake-tsunami disaster, respectively.

Many residents in HCM City's suburban districts of Hoc Mon and Go Vap are living in fear of leeches after a firm, which had set up shops in the area to buy the bloodsuckers at a good price, disappeared without any warning.

VietNamNet Bridge – Minister Dinh La Thang has suspended the director of HCM City-Trung Luong highway project for crack road-surface scandal.

The prime minister of Libya's interim government announced the lineup of the country's transitional cabinet in the capital Tripoli late Tuesday that will lead the war-torn country until parliamentary elections are held in 2012.

Vietnam is now planning to impose a stricter control over the outward investment projects, after experts warned that in many cases, the investments do not bring the desired effects.

Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco received a two-month suspended sentence and a 3,000 euro fine from a French court on Tuesday for having taken EPO during the 2008 Tour de France.

The head of Egypt's ruling military council, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, said here late Tuesday that the council has accepted the resignation of the caretaker government led by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf.

Japanese cartoon characters at Exhibition House; Wood-engraved paintings depict farmers’ lives; Bartender competition names winner; HCM City to host ‘Street Book Festival’ during Tet; Jazz extravaganza Dialektos comes to Vietnam  

The use of acupuncture for children is common and acupuncture is generally safe for children when performed by "appropriately trained practitioners," Canadian researchers reported Monday in online journal Pediatrics.

Last week Vietnam Electricity (EVN) released a report that it had suffered a loss of nearly VND10.16 trillion (US$484 million), for the first time.

If successfully developed and applied in a large scale, IPNET, the control unit invented by a bachelor of the Hanoi National University, will help operate the public lightening system more effectively, thus helping save millions of dollars a year.

The rapid increase in the number of students has forced universities to recruit new lecturers regularly. However, it is very difficult to recruit lecturers these days due to the unreasonable remuneration offers.

The beauty pageant opened several days ago and Phan Thi Mo was nominated very late so she could not well prepare for the event. That’s the reason the Performing Art Agency denied to license Mo as Vietnam’s representative to Miss Earth 2011.

The Vietnamese business circle has geared up to prepare to grab the new opportunities to be brought when Ha Long Bay has been recognized as one of the seven new wonders of the world.

Vietnam-Japan Information and Communication Technology Day (Japan ICT Day) will take place in Hanoi from November 24-25 to strengthen the exchange of information and experience among IT businesses.